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The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto: Principle Number Seven – The Primary Progress Indicator
This installment of our 12-part series on the principles of the Agile Manifesto deals with principle 7. This principle states: Working software is the primary measure of progress" In a traditional waterfall development cycle, all the design is done up front and the...
The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto: Principle Number Six – Promote Face To Face Interaction
Welcome back to our series as we continue to examine the 12 principles underlaying the Agile Manifesto! Our topic for this installment is principle six's guidance on effective communication. This principle states the following: The most efficient and effective method...
A letter from Adu Worku, Founder of the Zoz Amba Foundation
January 2019 Hello Chris, We had a wonderful time in Ethiopia and came back feeling enormously blessed. I can tell you, the people in my village are so very thankful to you--I wish I could take you there to show you what we have done together, and how happy and...
What’s in the MITRE/FDA Playbook?
On October 2018, the MITRE Corporation and the Food and Drug Administration released their joint document, Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook. This is the new Bible for organizations designing and manufacturing connected...
How Cyber Security Requirements Can Throw your Medical Device Off Track
In our last article we talked about the four steps your organization must go through when designing secure connected medical devices. With the increasing attention paid to product security in this era of connected medical devices, many companies are scrambling to keep...
CloudBees CD (formerly Electric Cloud) Electric Commander – Process Automation Dashboard
Video Transcript: Here at SPK, we strive to mold technology to the particular needs of your business so you can spend less time configuring your tech infrastructure and more time getting your product to market. And process dashboard is means of achieving this for...
Multi-Cloud Is the Future of Infrastructure… For Now
Does this sound familiar? Your organization has settled into its cloud migration. You’re enjoying the increased security and resiliency. You feel like you’ve just climbed a mountain and you want to spend some time gazing out from the summit. Then you read about...
Four Steps to Securing Your Company’s Medical Devices
Connected medical devices offer enormous opportunity for manufacturers and consumers alike. They also carry the burden of increased risk due to cybersecurity flaws. Think about the dangers of having your email or bank account hacked. Now consider the damage hacking a...
What About Google Cloud?
Of course, the missing piece of our cloud discussion is Google Cloud. In some ways, Google is a minor player in the cloud world, despite popular cloud-based apps like Google Docs and Google Drive. It’s not even in third place -- it’s in fourth, behind IBM. The...
Multi-Cloud Solutions Present Significant Architecture Challenges
Last time we discussed how a multi-cloud solution including both AWS and Azure might be just the solution your organization needs. Now let’s talk a bit more about the challenges attendant to leveraging both platforms at the same time. Architecting both to play nice...
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The Guide to Advanced Jenkins
Jenkins®, is arguably one of the most popular development tools on the planet, with some reports estimating that over 70% of all continuous integration pipelines run on Jenkins. It’s great at helping small, agile development teams build, test, and deploy multiple...